You're absolutely right that my reply wasn't the friendlies way to go about things. I bit back to the original comment, and I shouldn't have done that.
The original comment I was responding to was, in its entirety:
"Whatever happened to copyright..."
And I'm gonna be honest: to me, that is not just asking an innocent question in a friendly and non-confrontational way. It's implicitly pretty accusatory.
> I take it you've never paid for food and rent from the income from your photographs.
Are you talking about yourself being unfriendly and throwing accusations?